SPEAKERS

Rochelle
BALLARD is
the Digital Resources Coordinator at Princeton University
Library (New Jersey, USA), where she handles the acquisition
and management of electronic resources. Prior to 2001,
Rochelle was the Assistant Director of Acquisitions and
Coordinator of Electronic Resources at Texas A&M University
and Reference Librarian at the University of Central Florida
and North Carolina A&T State University. Rochelle has
discussed the management of electronic resources with various
groups at local and national levels. She is an active member
of the American Library Association.

Richard
BURKE is
the Executive Director of the Statewide California Electronic
Library Consortium (SCELC). He has worked with the consortium
in this capacity for nine years and previously served for
many years as the director of an academic library at a small
private college in Los Angeles, California. He has presented
at numerous library conferences, including the American Library
Association annual meeting, Society for Scholarly Publishing
annual conference, the California Academic and Research Libraries
(CARL) conference and the Charleston Conference.

Ted FONS is
the Senior Product Manager at Innovative Interfaces. He
is responsible for the management of Innovative's Electronic
Resource Management, Acquisitions, Serials, WebBridge LR
and Pathfinder Pro products. His most recent development
project was to bring to general release the first Standardized Usage Statistics
Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) client in an Electronic Resource Management system.
Ted has been with Innovative since 1996. He has a Masters in Library Science
degree from Syracuse University and has worked in Acquisitions, Cataloging and
Reference in academic libraries.

Brian GREEN is
manager of EDItEUR, the international organization developing
e-commerce-related standards for the book and serials industry.
He is also Executive Director of the International ISBN Agency
and Chairman of ISO TC46 SC9, the ISO committee responsible
for identifiers in the information community. Until last
year, Brian was manager of Book Industry Communication (BIC),
the UK book industry standards body set up in 1991 by the
Publishers Association, Booksellers Association, Library
Association and the British Library. Prior to setting up
BIC, Brian worked in the publishing industry and was Director
of Technology and Publishing Management at the UK Publishers
Association.

Dalene HAWTHORNE began
working with electronic resources as an indexer at Information
Access Company, now part of the Gale Group, in 1989. Ms.
Hawthorne became an editor of Magazine Index in 1991 and
manager of serials acquisitions in 1992. She became a Customer
Sales Consultant for Innovative Interfaces in 1998. Ms. Hawthorne
worked for various special libraries from 1999 to 2002, when
she became Serials Librarian at Stanford University Libraries.
She holds a Masters in Library and Information Science from
San Jose State University. Ms. Hawthorne is currently Head
of Systems and Technical Services at Emporia State University,
Kansas.

Ted KOPPEL is
Verde Product Manager for Ex Libris, which builds on his
significant product management and related experience in
the library and information marketplace. His prior experience
includes working at the CARL Corporation, OCLC and as Senior
Product Manager for Standards Implementation at The Library
Corporation (TLC), where he represented TLC on numerous industry
standards committees. Currently,
he is a member of four standards committees in the Electronic
Resources Management and resource sharing areas. He is the
Chairman of the NISO (National Information Standards Organization)
Content and Collections Management Steering Committee. Koppel
holds a bachelor's degree in languages from Georgetown University
with a minor in Arabic. He also has an master in Library Science
from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

Jennifer
LANG is
Electronic Resources Cataloger at Princeton University Library
(New Jersey, USA), a position she has held since 2004.
Before moving to Princeton, Jennifer was the Project Manager/Automation
Liaison in the Cataloging and Database Maintenance Department
at the University of Cincinnati Library. While at UC, she
had the opportunity to wear many hats, including cataloguing
serials and electronic resources and managing the library's
ongoing quality control program and outsourced authority
control work. At Princeton, Jennifer is a member of the
Library Training and Education Committee, chair of the
Electronic Resources Cataloging Committee, and chair of
a university-wide committee on metadata standards. Jennifer
is also a part-time lecturer in the graduate school at
Rutgers University, and is a member-at-large of the American
Library Association's Library Research Roundtable, serves
on the Executive Board of the Black Caucus of the American
Library Association, and is president of the New Jersey
Library Association's Technical Services Section.

Kimberly PARKER is
currently wrapping up a temporary assignment at the World
Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland, where she
has been supporting the HINARI program to provide access
to online journals in developing countries. Her permanent
position is Head of Electronic Collections for the Yale University
Library, where among other things she coordinates the collecting
of electronic resources including a broad range of e-resource
management life-cycle issues. Kimberly also has oversight
responsibility for the selection aspects of digital conversion
of tradition collections, and for various digitally related
international special projects in the Yale University Library.
Kimberly has an undergraduate degree in Biology/Chemistry,
and graduated from the University of Michigan with an MILS
degree. She spent a year as a National Library of Medicine
Associate before coming to Yale as the Chemistry and Geology
Librarian and Science Bibliographer at the Sterling Chemistry
and Kline Science Libraries of Yale University. In 1997,
Kimberly took the newly established position at Yale of Electronic
Publishing and Collections Librarian that later grew into
a department head position. She was a member of the Digital
Library Federations ERMI Steering Group from 2002-2004. Recently
Kimberly has been working on issues of ensuring appropriate
infrastructure to support electronic resources, staffing
workflows for managing e-resources, and ways to make electronic
materials easily available throughout the world. Yale University
Library has more than 12.5 million volumes housed in 22 libraries.
It employs a staff of nearly 600 FTE. Electronic collections
are a rapidly growing part of that library.

Oliver
PESCH works
as chief strategist for EBSCO Information
Services in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, where he helps set direction for EBSCO's
E-Resource Access and Management Services group. Oliver
is a strong supporter of standards - currently he serves
on the NISO board of directors and the Executive Committee
for Project COUNTER as well as frequently speaking and
writing on topics such as usage statistics, OpenURL and
e-resource management.

Dorette SNYMAN holds
a B.Bibl and B.Bibl (Hons) degrees from the University of
Pretoria, South Africa. She started working in the Unisa
Library (University of South Africa, Pretoria) in 1983, first
in Study Collection, then as a cataloguer for 7 years. In
1990 she took up a position of a subject librarian and for
the past 7 years she has been responsible for the management
of the Unisa Library electronic resources. Her responsibilities
include: coordination of the collection management activities
of electronic resources within the subject librarian division,
managing the electronic resources budget and collating usage
statistics. She has represented the Unisa Library in the
GAELIC Consortium Collection Management Focus Group for a
number of years and is currently the convenor of the focus
group. Dorette is also the convenor of the interdivisional
Processing of Electronic Resources Workgroup in the Unisa
Library, which is responsible for the implementation of the
Millenium Electronic Resources Management module.

Jennifer WATSON is currently Head
of Electronic & Collection
Services at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Library
in Memphis (Tennessee, USA) and was previously Electronic Services
Librarian at the same institution.
Jennifer began her career as a library assistant at All Souls College in
Oxford (UK). After graduating with a Postgraduate Diploma in Information
Studies from the University of North London (now Metropolitan University)
in
1996 she moved to California, where she worked for two library vendors,
before relocating to Tennessee.

Wilhelm WIDMARK has
a Master of Arts and a Master in Library and Information
Science from Uppsala University, Sweden. After his education
in Library Science he started to work at Lycos.se with their
web catalogue. In 2000 he started to work at Stockholm University
Library and in 2002 became coordinator of e-resources at
the library. In 2005 he became the Director of the Department
of E-resources at Stockholm University Library. He is a member
of the library management group and the library board at
Stockholm University. Outside the library he is a member
of Sage and Ebsco library advisory boards in Europe. He has
written a number of articles about different subjects within
e-resources like e-books, federated search engines and Open
Access.

Alicia WISE is
Chief Executive of the Publishers Licensing Society, a not
for profit organisation that manages collective licensing
for c. 8,000 publishers in the United Kingdom. PLS
distributes approximately 20 million pounds per annum in
copyright royalties to publishers. Previously
she was an academic archaeologist, and led collections development
activities for the Archaeology Data Service. Next she
joined the Joint Information Systems Committee, first managing
national negotiations for access to a broad array of intellectual
property (e.g. books, databases, films, images, magazines,
maps, journals, and learning resources) and then directing
research and development programmes to stimulate the innovative
use of information technology in further and higher education.